Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves and NATO and its North London fellow travelers have inflicted untold sufferings on all Venezuelans because it wants to rob Venezuela’s oil.

Declan Hayes

Although Russian soprano Anna Netrebko now heads Myrotvorets’ list of assassination targets, before making any informed comment on her case or that of a gaggle of Venezuelans and Belarusians who have also found themselves in NATO’s cross hairs, we must first acquaint ourselves with the 101s of Venezuelan, Russian and Belarusian society as well, of course, as to how the opera and related worlds work.

Netrebko is a Kuban Cossack, who worked her way up from being a lowly janitor to being an international operatic superstar, and good on her for that and for, in her role as a global superstar, meeting Russian President Putin on several occasions. For any NATO shill, who thinks any such meeting is suspicious, all they need to do is look at the Paris Olympics, where politicians of all stripes are brown nosing their athletes in the hope that some of their sheen might rub off on their brown noses.

Although Netrebko has stated that she would have preferred that the Ukrainian war had not occurred, she is also on record as stating that it is what it is and that forces, other than her, must conclude it. Although elements of the Russian Duma, as well as the Nazi nutcases, who sit in the Ukrainian Parliament, have both denounced her, and though NATO’s fascistic European Parliament has sanctioned her, Netrebko has quite rightly described those NATO shills forcing her to express her political position as “human shits.”

She’ll get no argument from me on that or, I imagine, from Ivan Litvinovich and Viyaleta Bardzilouskaya, the two Belarusian athletes, who respectively won gold and silver medals at the Olympics and who thereby put to shame the “human shits” of under-performing Ukraine, who tried to dehumanise them and their Belarusian compatriots.

Although Netrebko likewise just wants to do her operatic thing, because Netrebko won’t call for the murder of Russian civilians NATO, as the mafia would say, wants her gone.

Norman Lebrecht, NATO’s go-to idiot on such matters, has called our attention to the fact that Netrebko has been booked to star in a new Tosca production in January of next year in Rome’s eternal city and, to add insult to NATO’s injury, that “the half-banned Russian soprano” is also due to perform in Florida in February 2025.

Although the Ukrainian Nazis are having a canary about all this, the fact of the matter is Netrebko has Puccini‘s Tosca gig well and truly sewn up. Because the Rome gig is to celebrate the 125^th anniversary of the first performance of Tosca, it would be unthinkable for anyone, except for the Nazis of Ukraine and their North London fellow travelers, to even entertain the idea that the performance would go ahead without Netrebko being centre stage.

Opera, even more so than all similar arts, works on their tried and trusted maxim that the likes of Callas, Cabellé, Caruso, Corelli, Netrebko and Pavarotti get the limelight and the rest get the leftover peanuts. Without Netrebko, you cannot have Puccini. Simple as!

If all of that is too highbrow for you, just think how the Chinese recently rioted because Messi did not play in a friendly against them. But Messi is a footballer, not a circus performing bear, there to do tricks and handstands, even if the Chinese, who paid fortunes to see him, thought otherwise. Just as the Chinese went to see Messi, so also do the Italians, the Vatican’s big wigs and Rome’s diplomatic corps go to see the Kuban Cossack, Anna Netrebko. It is as simple as that.

And, as with the Kuban Cossacks, so also with the Venezuelans, who are not performing monkeys either, contrary to what these same NATO charlatans might wish.

A case in point is 43 year old Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Adolfo Dudamel Ramírez, who is currently the music director of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and who is scheduled to become the Music and Artistic Director of the New York Philharmonic in 2026. To see how steeped Dudamel is in the music of Venezuela and beyond, recall that his father is a trombonist and a voice teacher of some note, and that Dudamel himself began his ongoing involvement with El Sistema, the famous Venezuelan social action music programme, at the age of five.

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